Wiktionary
n. A type of puzzle in which the aim is to reconstruct a picture that has been cut (originally, with a jigsaw) into many small interlocking pieces.
WordNet
n. a puzzle that requires you to reassemble a picture that has been mounted on a stiff base and cut into interlocking pieces
Wikipedia
A jigsaw puzzle is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of often oddly shaped interlocking and tessellating pieces. Each piece usually has a small part of a picture on it; when complete, a jigsaw puzzle produces a complete picture. In some cases more advanced types have appeared on the market, such as spherical jigsaws and puzzles showing optical illusions.
Jigsaw puzzles were originally created by painting a picture on a flat, rectangular piece of wood, and then cutting that picture into small pieces with a jigsaw, hence the name. John Spilsbury, a London cartographer and engraver, is credited with commercializing jigsaw puzzles around 1760. Jigsaw puzzles have since come to be made primarily of cardboard.
Typical images found on jigsaw puzzles include scenes from nature, buildings, and repetitive designs. Castles and mountains are two traditional subjects. However, any kind of picture can be used to make a jigsaw puzzle; some companies offer to turn personal photographs into puzzles. Completed puzzles can also be attached to a backing with adhesive to be used as artwork.
During recent years, a range of jigsaw puzzle accessories including boards, cases, frames and roll-up mats has become available that are designed to assist jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts.
"Jigsaw Puzzle," sometimes spelled "Jig-Saw Puzzle" is a song by rock and roll band the Rolling Stones, featured on their 1968 album Beggars Banquet.
Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "Jigsaw Puzzle" is one of the longer songs on the album. It comes in just ten seconds shorter than " Sympathy for the Devil" to which it is stylistically similar.
Parts of the recording sessions are available on the bootleg market, and on these recordings, Jagger is on acoustic guitar, Richards on electric slide guitar, Charlie Watts on drums, Bill Wyman on bass, and Nicky Hopkins on piano. Brian Jones is not present on these sessions. The released version has Richards on acoustic and slide guitar. Jones adds the distinctive "whine" throughout with a mellotron. "Jigsaw Puzzle" has never been performed live by the Stones.
Usage examples of "jigsaw puzzle".
The doctor took him apart wit exquisite care, like disassembling a flexible, fragile, tremendous] complex jigsaw puzzle.
The doctor took him apart with exquisite care, like disassembling a flexible, fragile, tremendously complex jigsaw puzzle.
The ant was now running over the jigsaw puzzle that Alice had spent the whole morning trying to complete, only to find (frustratingly) that fully twelve pieces were missing from the segmented picture of London Zoo.
Even on his best days, he seldom reacted to Dylan or to anyone, and when he became obsessed with a jigsaw puzzle, this world seemed less real to him than did the two-dimensional scene in the fractured picture.
Then he tossed the book aside and hovered over the jigsaw puzzle, trying a couple of pieces and then wandering off again, staring blankly at the array of pictures.
But for his hosts, that seeming bagatelle may be the one missing piece of a jigsaw puzzle that has eluded them for a long time.
If only he could get a look - take a peek, a single glimpse - at the picture on the box, then he might be able to work it out for himself, the whole bloody jigsaw puzzle.
Hamish peered down at the jigsaw puzzle, toyed with a couple of the pieces, looking for a place to fit them into what he had already completed.
As a whole the crater is a smashed ashtray pieced loosely together like an impromptu jigsaw puzzle.
He could be found at almost any hour of the day in his bunk, or at his desk in his underwear, playing with a jigsaw puzzle.
For wouldn't it have been expedient, and typical of Simpson's cold war philosophy -- that he should make absolutely certain, once and for all, that no one ever could relate the real truth: the way the pieces really had fitted together, in the Spearfish jigsaw puzzle?
In the thirty-two years she had worked for Sir Graham, she couldn't once remember him giving his wife a jigsaw puzzle.